The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Aunt MASON ECKLEs, Of Clinton, Mo-, dropped
dead in her dooryard the other day while feed
ing her chickens. She was 106 years old and a
negro.
CAPT. w. H. MuRcHEsoN, of Medon, Tenn,
had tasted fifty days on Friday last. During
that time it is claimed that he has not taken a
swallow Of either food or drink. He sits up and
talks freely.
THREE years ago small moth flew into the
ear of J. G. Stab of Wilmington, Del 1t re-
NAMED just inside the drum of the ear until the
other day, when tine application of milk poul-
tees and salt water resulted in its removal 1t
was alive, and flew several feet.
AT the present time there are on the pension
lists of the British army the names of widows of
officers to whom pensions We're granted seventy
years ago Some of these widows must there
fore be from 100 to 100 years of age. But the
average Englshman is Sceptical on this point,
preferring to believe that there is fraud some
where.
A 3-YEAR-oLD WATERBURY BOY, whose legs
were deformed from birth, was taken to the
New Haven City HOSPITAL, where the surgeon
broke one of the legs three times, and the other
one twice. and then Strengthened and reset the
bones. The child endured the operation well
under ether, and now walks long distances with
only slight limp.
THE charges against Pastor c. c. Herriott of
Westminster Presbyterian church, st. Paul, who
has been asked to resign, are peculiar They are
that he used the study attached to the church as
an Office for his real estate SpecuatiOnS; that he
made $4,000 in booming real estate, and while
advising his flock to give one-tenth of all they
possess to the Lord, made no such partition OF
his own profits.
A PARTY of excursonists from Boston recently
visited the town of FL Paso del Norte in Mexico.
They came into the shop, said merchant of
the town, ''but that was alright, Then the first
thing l knew they walked back into our living
part of the house and went to pulling over
things and looking into drawers just as if they
were at home My wife had to ask them to go
out, and had to push them so she could shut the
door. They only laughed and thought it was a
great joke that Mcxicans should have any feel
ingS."
A CLERGYMAN of Auburn, Me-, after eating
luncheon in a railroad eating house, picked up
what he thought was his bag and went on his
journey. When he got home the bag was
opened in the presence of his wife, who was
grieved TO see lying side by side several bottles
which, according to their labels, contained fire
water of the strongest kind. The bag belonged
to drummer for liquor house, and the drum
ner was probably also surprised when he found
that in the bag tnat he had were three solid. Or
thodoX sermons
A SOCIETY MAN in Buffalo, n Y, tells how
near he came being arrested for a pickpocket:
Il was walking along absent-mindedly. he
had been waiting for had passed me. l threw
up my hand suddenly to motion to the conduc-
tor to stop, and got my fingers entangled in the
watchchain of gentleman who came up. |
suppose he thought was trying TO rob him, for
he made grab at me and ran after me half the
way to the car. Then he went back, but l sup
pose he told the police what narrow escape he
had"
WATCHES have an interesting history. The
first one was about the size of a dessert plate.
1t had weights, and was used as pocket clock.
The first great improvement was the substitu-
ton of springs for weights. This was done in
$40. The earliest springs were not coiled, but
only straight pieces of steel The watches had
only one hand, and being wound uptwice day,
could not be expected to keep the time nearer
than fifteen or twenty minutes in the twelve
hours The dialS were of silver or. brass. The
cases had no crystals, but opened at the back
and front, and were four or five inches in diam
eter. A plain watch in those days cost about
$1,000. 1t took year to make one.
CARDINAL MANNING, who was one of the speak
ers the other afternoon at Grosvenor House,
London. in support of the Royal Victoria Hall
related the following anecdote: One evening he
was walking in West London, and passed
laboring man. who, with his pipe in his mouth,
was walking along. Goodnight" said the
prelate, by way of beginning a conversation,
which before long turned on the temperance
question. The workman it appeared, had not
taken the pledge, having consulted a friend
about the matter who thought there was no
need for him to do SO, as he was no drunkard.
The Cardinal, probably thinking that example
is better than precept, told the man that he had
taken it, whereupon the latter promptly replied
by asking: Did you want it, your reverence
''To PLUME ones self comes from the Hun
garians, who placed in their caps feather for
each Turk killed, and, therefore, were decorated
according to valor. The use of the white feather
a sign of withdrawal from contest or as a
leaving the field the white feathers were the
most easily seen. The sending Of a white feather
to one intending fighting meant usually warn
ing from some friend that discretion would be
the better part of valor. The question has often
been asked why the feathers of the peacock,
beautiful as they are, have the reputation of
bringing bad luck to the wearer. The East In
dams and the North American Indians believe
that feathers endow their owner with the vices
or virtues of the bird from which they are
plucked, and as the peacock is vain, arrogant
and greedy, he can scarcely endow one with all
the virtues. The kingisher has been a highly
honored bird, and to possess one of his feathers
or hit of his skin has meant great fortune.
The Tartars firmly believe that he who touches
a beautiful woman with a kingfisher's feather
will gain her love.
AS POLICEMAN WARREN, of the West End pre-
cinct, in Boston, was standing at Cambridge and
Temple streets about 2:30 O'Clock Saturday
morning, he was startled by the sudden appear
auce Of an apparition in white gliding out of
Lynde street into Cambridge street Warren
started after the ghost, which began to run at
great speed it's hair streaming out behind. BY
a hard squirt Warren overlook and seized it. The
ghost materialized into a good-loolning young
woman, in bare feet and an embroidered night
dress; hut the maiden said nothing, and War
rem, thinking she was insane, took her to the
station. where she SIN maintained silence 1t
was evidently a case of somnaInbusm. Lieut.
GasRin laid his hand upon the young womau's
shoulder to see If it would rouse her, when she
suddenly threw her arms about his neck and
laid her head upon his manly breast She was
still unconscious and the embarrassed lieutenant
had great difficulty in escaping from her en-
brace. A physician was sent for, and after
about fifteen minutes she reused and was terri
bly, shocked by the situation in which she found
herself. She was wrapped in a quilt and taken
TO her home on Lynde street.
HoT. HENRY EDWARDS, member Of the Penn
sylvania House of Representatives from Law
renee county, says that a few days ago two
boys aged 10 and IL years, sons of prominent
residents Of New Castle, Pa, broke open a
powder house mile from that city, and remov-
ing key of powder opened it and poured it on
the ground in circle 10 feet in diameter
lAboring man named Thomas Andrews lives In
the woods with his family short distance from
the powder house. -Four of bis children the
oldest years of age, were playing about in the
WOODS, and the two boys who had spread the
powder on the ground induced the four children
to come ont In the road and some fra.